This right here is a $560
gaming monitor. It's got a 240 Hz
refresh rate, G-Sync, and 1 millisecond
response times. I mean, gaming on this thing is way better than gaming on this
cheapo HP. But is it six times better?
Now, take this one. This $5,000
8K workstation monitor for creatives.
It is way better to look at than this peasant trash.
But is it 55.55
repeating times better?
Well, your mental math is correct. This
monitor is only $90. And welcome back to
another episode of why the actual holy
advertiser friendly content. Are you guys all buying this? The best
selling monitor on Amazon.com.
The Pavilion 22 CWA, the bestselling
monitor on Amazon.com, has over 3600
reviews and an average rating of 4.4 stars. And admittedly, it does look a
little out of place next to the kinds of products that we typically cover on this
channel. But don't let its dimminitive
21 1/2 in size and super light 8 1/2 lb
weight fool you. This monitor is 100%
pretty not bad. Just check out those
colors. So, what's the deal here? Well,
it's not just that HP is selling a cheap monitor. In fact, the number three best
seller is only 65 bucks. It's that
they're selling a cheap monitor that's equipped with an IPS panel, while these
other cheapies are sporting your run-of-the-mill TN panels. But HP
doesn't make LCD panels. They source them from other manufacturers. So if I
take a spudger like this and
work it around the edge, I might be able to see who actually made this thing.
So, the sticker says LM215WF3,
which according to the internet is an LG
panel with a full 1920x 1080 resolution,
typical brightness of 250 nits and 8bit
color. But what's really interesting is that if I type that model number into
Amazon, I get a page full of replacement
2012 to 2014 iMac screens. and for over
$200. So, either these prices have a heavy
Apple tax applied to them or HP secured
an awesome deal with LG because 90 bucks
for an iMac screen ain't half bad. Plus,
you aren't just getting the panel. HP is providing you with the casing, stand,
IO, and their one-year limited warranty, which is of course required by law.
Haha. And the casing itself isn't too
bad either. It's made of not terrible quality plastic that doesn't easily get
covered in fingerprints, and it is slim all the way around. Though, of course,
they did have to cut some corners somewhere to get the price down. And the
stand is the worst offender. It offers
no swivel, no pivot or height adjust
whatsoever. though it does include a little bit of tilt to that you'll
probably need because the stand is so short. And that isn't even the worst
part. It's that should you take the crappy stand off and opt to use a third
party monitor ARM instead, perhaps in a multimonitor setup, which these are
awesome for thanks to the thin bezels. It's not Vasa compatible. So, unless you
get an adapter for an extra $20, you're going to have to get pretty creative.
Bringing us to the IO,
it's pretty spartan. You get one HDMI
port and one VGA port. That's it. I
mean, you probably have low expectations for such a budget product, but just make
sure that they're low enough to also not be surprised when there is no HDMI cable
included in the box. So, who should buy this monitor then?
Well, if you want a secondary or tertiary or quatinary screen for that
matter to supplement your main display or displays, the wide viewing angles
here mean that you can put it way off to the side without much color distortion.
As for using it for your main display,
could you use it for gaming? Sure. While
IPS displays aren't known to have the highest refresh rates or the fastest
pixel response times, this one's input lag is better than most TVs. And while
you will see some smearing and fastoving scenes, it's a far cry better than value
monitors from 10 years ago. So, do we recommend it? Actually, yeah. It's a
great value. And if you're hung up on the crappy stand, don't worry. An
additional 40 bucks will get you the number two bestselling monitor, which is
also from HP and basically the same, but
an inch bigger and with a Vasa compatible pivoting stand.
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